I have some ideas spinning out the docs discussion of on the user list; and 
after accosting andrea on the IRC channel have been told to "socialise" them.

Basically:
- we would like to publish docs for stable 2.6
- we would like to publish docs for 2.7
- and we can "end" the experimental spike/web/sphinx (it is an experiment of an 
experiment!)
- I really like the source code being *live* for documentation
- the wiki is dead (it is a wiki so it is out of date; codehaus security hoops 
scare off any contributors ...)

So what does that look like? That is basically my question ... here is an idea.

http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools/web/ <-- contents of the existing sphinx folder 
minus the docs
http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools/trunk/doc <--- welcome docs; gradually growing 
into user guide
http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools/branches/2.6.x/doc <-- welcome docs from stable 
branch

A couple comments:
- I kind of thought we should convert the developers guide first (since it is 
more of a static document) - however it is a static document so there is no 
motivation
- I would like to have a modules/shapefile/doc containing the current "module 
matrix" page
  (I was thinking we could collect these with svn:externals - but apparently 
that is a bad idea for GIT clients)

And questions:
- How/where do we publish javadocs?
- We could publish sphinx docs as PDF given a bit of effort; website is better 
for search engines however


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